i no that there are not as many solar system guys on here as there is deep space guys but i do see a few people posting some great images of saturn and jupiter and moon venus mercury and im sure we all have differnt techs i hope to hear some of approaches u guys are taken to capture these realitives of ours my self i could shoot what ever planet was up each night im out thats how much i love it and the reason i bought my first scope so hopefully through this lil group we can all improve a lil !!

Great idea Spike, I have spent a great deal of time imaging the moon afocally which I have come to discover is a great method, I was somewhat forced to image this way due to my lens being attached to my Sony F-828. Recently I started using a SPC900NC webcam to shoot Saturn, I was out last night again working on the settings but I still cannot get a nice clear shot like the others I have seen taken with the same camera and set up as mine, there is something I am missing, not sure what though

BTW like you looking at the heavens started with the planets for me at a young age but imaging them only started a year ago, what a great thrill to be able to image Jupiter and four of its moons. The first time I got a shot of Uranus I did a little dance but my first shot of the moon, well lets just say I was over the moon.

What I use for doing the planets is my LPI , my DSI isn't made for that

hiya jerome welcome buddy i am not familer with those cams at all hopefully someone will b glad u joined buddy

cool aint it philip hey u can use that web cam on the moon also hey do u have a dslr ?

That LPI is just like the neximage only made by Meade

Oh ok does it shoot video buddy or just still frames

hey guys i will b out thursaday night and im gonna try and grad all the planets in one outing im gonna snap some shots of my computer screen while im captureing with eos movie record and the neximage with amcap and then some s creen shots in registax to kinda let yall see how i go about it i no i still have lots to learn aswell thats the one thing about this hobby that i love u can never learn it all someone always has a new way or diff way to do and still get great results

if any of u have a place where u can see low in the east just before dawn 7 out 8 of the planets will b up not the best place to image at but great for pratice if u can get it decent there wen it comes in to opp u can nail it lol

Hey Spike no DSLR yet I am working on it though, crazy, I have been doing Photography since grade 4, relied on film up until 2004 when I got my Sony F-828 over 30,000 photos and still works great but not so much for astrophotography, great with stars and awesome with the moon but not with deep space and it works well with targets like Neptune and Uranus. I am in the market to get a DSLR but still not sure if CCD is they way to go but that is for another discussion

yeah i have wrestled with that one two tuff dession i was just curious

hey jerome if the lpi shoots video u should get u a short video on the planet it is a lot easyer than doing single frames if possable just a thought

i will have a jupiter video up tonight taken with the 4inch mak durin opp

Next clear skies we get I may try that Spike , I would have to use the program that came with the camera

welcome tim

welcome ben

welcome russ

hey guys i will try and upload some screen shots in the next couple days and mayb some processing videos for those useing the neximage and a dslr

welcome jp

neximage 640 by 480

hey everyboby check out philips star saturn pics man they are really cool looking they are on his page

welcome brian carter

welcome s-hop yeah man go for it dude eos movie record